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out with a hoe and dust mask in warm weather.
Questions- Call us 207-696-5442 or email us at
[email protected]
F
INE
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TUNING
:
Follow the general guidelines, but exercise
common sense. Watch, listen, and learn from
the fire and heater. Fine-tune and adjust your
techniques as necessary.
O
VEN
C
ARE
:
The oven is “on” after every burn for several
hours. A clean burn in the main firebox will
create a clean burn in the oven. If the oven is
sooty and dark, then you are not getting a clean
burn. Call us for advice if dry wood, upside
down burns and close attention on your part
doesn’t clean up the burn and oven. During a
clean burn, flames will flow into the oven and
circle left and right like ram’s horns on either side
of the oven throat.
After a burn, test the oven temperature with a
metal oven thermometer. Fine untreated wood
fly ash is not unhealthy. You can bake bread,
if you wish, directly on the oven hearth bricks.
Casseroles or pan goods such as pies, cakes or
roasts can be placed anywhere on the oven floor
and over the throat. Rotate the pans if necessary.
Pizza is best prepared by placing a “pizza stone”
in the oven after the burn. Let the stone “soak”
for 20 -30 minutes then bake pizzas’ (up to 12”
-14” diameter) directly on the stone. Several
pizzas’ can be cooked in sequence, each taking
only a few minutes to bake.
DO NOT FORGET TO REMOVE THE PIZZA
STONE AFTER YOUR COOKING IS DONE. Left
in place the stone will block the oven throat and
cause the heater to smoke out around the doors
at the next burn.
